Tuesday 3:30 - 5:00 PM | Session Details

Life & Leadership Lessons from the 1960s Race to the Moon • Bob Pautke | LEAD Clermont, OH -  301 A

The 1960s race to the moon offers life and leadership lessons in vision, relationships, innovation, teamwork, renewal -of meeting challenges expected, and recovery from the unexpected. Actual moon-race videos, speeches, and pictures are woven together to inspire rich tabletop discussions around Four Questions needing answers from the personal, work-team, and community leader perspectives. Participants will leave with a 'skeleton curriculum' to build their workshops for home, work, and community programs and a deeper appreciation for those pioneers who modeled life & leadership lessons for us. 

About the Speaker: Bob Pautke has held leadership positions in a Fortunate 500 company, an international small business firm, and now several community service positions. As Executive Director of LEAD Clermont, he continues to develop and deliver this Community Leadership program to high schoolers, companies, and non-profits on the east side of Cincinnati. He co-founded Connect Clermont, a community-building accelerator connecting human, information, and financial resources to community needs. He serves on the board of Boys & Girls Clubs, local education boards, and is an advisor to the township he lives in. Organizations in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Japan, the U.K., and Europe have used Bob's strengths-based leadership approach to purposeful growth and improved performance. 


Leading the Next Greatest Generation  • Kristin Scroggin  | genWHY Communications LLC- a partner of Leadership Greater Huntsville, AL -  301 B

In the midst of The Great Resignation (or Reshuffle, if you prefer), attracting and retaining have become imperatives. This presentation will let you in on some of our top tips for interviewing, onboarding, training, and empowering Millennials and GenZs to WANT to stay with your organization. We will examine key questions you can ask to assess whether the employee has 'THE TWO T'S' (Teachabie and Tolerable) and walk you through our Roadmap to Retaining Rockstars. You won't want to miss it! Attendees will learn the top 10 'abilities' you want to discover in new hires during the interview process, the importance of tapping potential leaders early in their career and training them to be successful, and key communication skills that many new employees might need training on in order to thrive in your organization.

About the Speaker: Kristin Scroggin can't do math or bake a pie, but she knows her stuff when it comes to Generational Diversity and Communication! Kristin has a Master's degree in Communication Studies, a Bachelor's in Communication Arts, and has been a Communications Professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville for over 15 years. In 2017 she launched her company, genWHY Communications, and has been a Keynote Speaker at more than 100 conferences and 250+ organizations across the United States, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to tiny non-profits. Her research has been published in magazines, and she's been a guest on multiple podcasts. Beyond speaking, Kristin consults on attracting, developing, and retaining Rockstar Millennial and GenZ talent. She has a website full of online soft-skill-related training sessions to help you and your team achieve their best.


Keeping Race on the Table: Sustaining Effective Cross-Racial Dialogue • Tony Hudson & Zach Kramer | Leadership Twin Cities,
MN 
-  301 C

DEI efforts only succeed when participants are able to sustain effective cross-racial dialogue. Through nearly twenty years of research and practice facing this challenge, Racially Conscious Collaboration has developed a tool that meets people and organizations where they are and allows them to keep race on the table, as a focus of conversation, as a factor impacting other forms of oppression, and as an issue in organizational change. Hear how Leadership Twin Cities is incorporating RCC's tools into their signature program as a key part of achieving their mission of developing inclusive community leaders.

About the Speakers: As President and Founder of Racially Conscious Collaboration™, Tony Hudson meets leaders and organizations where they are and develops them to sustain effective anti-racist organizational change. Tony has leveraged over two decades of experience effectively leading anti-racist systemic change and consulting to develop other leaders to do the same across the United States and globally. Tony is a trusted consultant, coach, and trainer to leaders in multiple sectors stateside in organizations like Ovative Group marketing research firm, the National Association of Child Life Professionals,  Tredyffrin-Easttown School District, the United Nations, Leadership Twin Cities, and more. Driven by a purpose to align people and resources to center racial consciousness and intersectional equity in relationships and collaboration, Tony developed the Systemic Racially Conscious Collaboration™ Framework; a suite of research-based tools structured to measure and guide leaders and organizations regarding the hallmarks of effective anti-racist change equity and inclusion. Leaders enthusiastically attest to how Tony has strengthened their personal and professional ability to lead anti-racist organizational change effectively. 

Zach Kramer has a long history of helping others be the best version of themselves. Professionally, he has used his engineering degree to consult key stakeholders on the value of making energy-efficient and sustainable improvements to commercial buildings in New York, North Carolina, Colorado, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota. He has also volunteered much of his time with civic leadership organizations. He served as an Eagle Scout with the Boy Scouts of America, President of Student Council at Penn State University, President of the Young Professionals of Minneapolis, and currently is a board member of the YMCA in Minneapolis. Zach now uses his passion for consulting and civic leadership to manage the Minneapolis Regional Chamber’s leadership programs. In his first two years with the organization, Zach helped change the program’s mission to focus on developing leaders of inclusive growth to meet the current needs of the community most impacted by the murder of George Floyd. Under Zach’s leadership, all programming is now structured explicitly around fostering inclusive growth and designed to help others think systematically and collaborate across different industries.


Making FUNdraising Strategy FUN • Samantha Edwards Lacy | Leadership Knoxville, TN -  301 D

If you are looking for creative ways to put some pep into your program fund development, this workshop is for you! If your organization's mission matters, then fundraising isn’t hard, BUT it is necessary! Learn how to make fundraising asks, start a signature event, and build a fundraising strategy. Open to chamber based and stand-alone 501c3 programs.

About the Speaker:  Samantha Edwards Lacy serves as the Director of Strategic Partnerships & Engagement with Leadership Knoxville. She has previous experience with political fundraising, corporate sales, and development.  A 6th generation East Tennessean, she is profoundly grateful to be from the Tri-Star state and a proud graduate of the University of Tennessee. After several years at Leadership Knoxville, she began a career in corporate sales with IMG – the multi-media rights holder for Tennessee Athletics. It was there she began to work with community non-profits, including work as a founding board member for Volunteer East Tennessee and the United Way of Greater Knoxville’s Young Leaders Society. These roles in the community led her to a newly created position with Clayton-Bradley Academy, in partnership with Clayton Homes, to develop an office of community advancement. Since re-joining the team at Leadership Knoxville in 2019, she has overseen development, marketing, communications, strategic partnerships, and events like the Mayors’ Leadership Luncheon and The Big Table. She is a past honoree of the Young Professionals of Knoxville Impact Awards and a graduate of Leadership Blount, Introduction Knoxville, and Leadership Tennessee NEXT. Currently, she serves as the co-chair for the Leadership Tennessee NEXT Advisory Committee and as a board member for the Florence Crittenton Agency and the East Tennessee Historical Society. She is married to Andrew Lacy, an avid fly fisherman, a sport of which she has no interest.


Expansion: Your Toolkit for Launching a New Community Leadership Program • Jo Lloyd-Triplett and Aaron Miller | Leadership Louisville Center, KY -  301 E

People love what your organization does for your community, and it's time to expand your program offerings. But how? There is no shortage of great ideas as to what your NEXT AMAZING NEW PROGRAM could be, but given your current workload, how do you do it? Aaron Miller and Jo Lloyd-Triplett from the Leadership Louisville Center have been in your shoes and want to share their toolkit with you. In the last eight years, they have expanded from four community leadership programs to seven and built a roadmap to help your journey. From concept to naming to curriculum to recruitment, you will hear stories of how to launch a new program with intentionality that's set up for success (but also how you can pivot if things don't go according to plan).

About the Speakers: Jo Lloyd-Triplett is the Assistant Director of Community Leadership  at the Leadership Louisville Center, where she provides learning journey construction, curriculum design & facilitation of leadership development programs in addition to providing content creation and training through open-course workshops and talent development solutions. Jo recently launched the Center’s new professional development training program for women and heads the social innovation program that addresses complex community issues.

Previously, Jo served as the Executive Director at Sister Cities of Louisville, where she created exchanges in arts and culture, business and trade, youth and education, community development, and humanitarian work that not only encouraged global friendship but helped to tackle the world’s most pressing issues at the local level. British-born and educated, she holds degrees in languages and economics from the University of Sheffield. The USA has been home since 2004 and is the third country that Jo has called home.

Aaron Miller is the Vice President of the Leadership Louisville Center, overseeing all programming offered by the organization, which has been inspiring and developing leadership in Louisville and throughout the region since 1979. This includes seven community leadership programs, events ranging from small to large (including the annual luncheon with over 1,000 attendees), and all skills-training offerings operating under the LeadingBetter brand.

Miller has been with the organization since 2011. Prior to joining the Center, Miller spent 17 years in broadcasting, working as a radio morning show host and promotions/marketing director. Miller was elected to two terms as a city council member for the city of Lyndon (a suburban city of Louisville) in 2002 and 2004, and he currently sits on the boards of the Lincoln Heritage Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the Catholic Foundation of Louisville, and is a member of the Louisville Free Public Library Advisory Commission. In 2015, Business First magazine named him one of the 20 People to Know in Nonprofits. He has received other awards including Business First’s Forty Under 40 in 2010, the Young Professionals Association of Louisville’s President’s Award in 2009, the Make-A-Wish Foundation’s Strength Award in 2007, and the Hope Award in 2004.